Drew Brees torched the Giants’ league-leading defense, swarming Saints defenders ruined Eli Manning’s homecoming, and undefeated New Orleans matched its best start since 1993 with a 48-27 throttling of previously unbeaten New York on Sunday.

“We wanted to really dictate the tempo of the game the whole way through,” Brees said. “Seven guys scored touchdowns. That’s big. (That type of rhythm) you feel like you can call anything and it’s going to work.”

Brees completed 23 of 30 passes for 369 yards and four scores, giving him 101 TD passes since his 2006 free-agent signing with the Saints.

The Giants (5-1) came in giving up averages of 210.6 yards and 14.2 points. The Saints (5-0) had 34 points and 315 yards by halftime.

The Saints have beaten all comers by 14 points or more and have yet to trail this season.

Manning looked like his father Archie sometimes did when he played for woeful Saints teams of old, fumbling on a sack by Roman Harper to set up a Saints score and throwing an interception under pressure.

Manning’s first game in the Superdome was not a memorable one for him. He was 14 of 31 for 178 yards.

“It’s not the way I imagined it, but you’re going to encounter all sorts of games and all sorts of situations,” Manning said before walking across the Superdome field to the team bus, his mother on one side, his father on the other. “I look at it as a loss. We need to go back to work this week, fix some things and try to improve.”

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